The aroma of smoked ribs and barbecued chicken wafted in the warm, early evening air outside Fox Hall on East Campus, serving as a better advertisement for Unive

When Fiona Bruce-Baiden ’21, still wearing her graduation gown, walked into a restaurant to celebrate with her family shortly after Commencement, other customers joined in the applause and cheers.

Lisa Heelan-Fancher, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy in the McCormack Graduate School, have joined forces with Massachusetts State Representative Liz Miranda to raise awareness and discussion of birth equity and racism at an upcoming virtual

The University of Massachusetts Boston received a substantial gift from famed Boston broadcaster Dan Rea ’70 to renovate and endow the weight room in the Clark Athletic Center.

AMHERST, Mass. – A team of student engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst placed third in a category at the recent American Institute of Steel Construction’s Student Steel Bridge Competition.

The UMass team, competing virtually, placed third in the Public Vote category, and it was the first time a UMass team competed in the national finals of the competition. More than 1,000 students from 102 colleges and universities competed.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the Massachusetts real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at a 7.9% annualized rate of growth, according to the UMass Amherst Donahue Institute’s MassBenchmarks report, while the U.S. GDP increased at a 4% rate according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). In the third quarter, both the nation and the state expanded at the fastest pace on record with Massachusetts GDP increasing at a 33.1% rate and U.S. GDP growing at a 33.4% rate.

Five UMass School of Public Policy students have been selected for the 2021 Civic Action Project fellowship program, which provides internships, mentoring and training for emerging public service leaders.

A group of researchers at the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) led by Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani and doctoral student Helia Hashemi is one of 10 teams worldwide selected to compete in the 2021 Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge.